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Michaela von Schweinitz's avatar

Thanks for the poem. This made my day: "Why hit a note on the head

when I can kill it?"

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Grant Faulkner's avatar

I love that line. We should all live in that spirit.

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Michaela von Schweinitz's avatar

Watch me kill it in my post today. :)

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Cle' Curbo's avatar

You're not trying hard enough if you don't get something wrong during the day. He who's not busy being born is busy dying, sang Bob Dylan. The whole of science would fail to find anything without the serendipity of failing at one task that results in showing a different truth.

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Prajna O'Hara's avatar

Make me chuckle. I love getting it wrong, it does make the notes more beautiful- to have range

Thx

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Robin Huber's avatar

Love this. My favorite works of art are all wrong on some level.

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Grant Faulkner's avatar

It's a little like wabi sabi. I never quite trust works of art that seem too perfect. A crack, a blemish adds a texture. The same goes for people, haha.

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Amanda McTigue's avatar

Yes yes and live closing on that poem. Thanks for bringing it to me.

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Zannie Rose's avatar

what a lovely post. Thank you

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Erika Zeitz's avatar

This.

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Luis A. Estable's avatar

Yes, but then the question is, “ Why so many choose to do bad or evil?” Does the bad outweighs the good? It seems that way sometimes.

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Grant Faulkner's avatar

Oh, I don't want anyone to do anything bad or evil to another. Just in their art, to do it wrong sometimes. Doing it "wrong" creatively can be liberating. Some conventions in life need that same treatment, of course, but not to the point of harming anyone.

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Showing Up with Bonnie Dawson's avatar

Fabulous post. Mentally provoking. On a rode trip, woke up in Seattle, something I haven't done in three years. My city of origin. Wondered how day would begin. I'd decided it would be a mind-off-leash getaway. Now I'm looking for my pencil to gather words. Because now I have the movie score stuck in my head. Tadada dadadadada. I first saw Man and a Woman when I was nine. Someone in my family owned the soundtrack. Thanks for that mention. Obviously unforgettable and influential. I'll have to view it again.

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